FancyCache Overview

FancyCache is a supplementary
software caching scheme that cooperates with system memory to provide
data caching for volumes/disks. It improves system performance by
transparently storing data into memory such that future requests for
that data can be served faster. FancyCache caches data on a logical
block basis (offsets within a volume/disk) while windows cache manager
caches on a virtual block basis (offsets within a file).

FancyCache can also utilize
the OS Invisible Memory which is wasted on 32-bit Windows when 4GB
memory or more is installed.

Principle

One of the FancyCache's core
components is a storage class filter driver which resides in the
storage stack, intercepting I/O requests for data on volume/disk. If
requested data is contained in the cache, this request can be served by
simply reading the cache, which is comparably faster. Otherwise the
data has to be fetched from volume/disk. Hence, the more requests can
be served from the cache the better the overall system performance is.

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Supported OS

More Information

Now FancyCache is under beta testing!

A beta version of FancyCache version 0.8.0 is now available for testing. If you have a
bit of time, we would very much appreciate it if you could install it,
try out the features, and give us any comments you have.

The beta version (180-day testing period) can be downloaded from the below,

As always, we highly
recommend that you test out the beta versions on a non-production
machine. We are quite confident that the current build is stable, but
it is always best to wait for a final release version. Beta testers
should also make sure that they generate backups of the files and
databases before testing.